Wallace said Parton funds her charity through her work, which includes concerts and businesses like the famed Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. and dinner-and-show venues in Myrtle Beach, S.C. and Branson, Mo.

The book showcased at the Library of Congress was the eight-time Grammy winner's "Coat of Many Colors."

She said it had special meaning to her because it told of clothing her mother made out of pieces of cloth - and the fact her father, Robert Lee Parton, was illiterate but one of the smartest people she knew.

Parton said that if her father did indeed know how to read, there's would have been no bounds to what he could have further accomplished.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff of California said that "people have suffered enough" because of President Trump and that a real leader would re-open the part of the government that has been shuttered since December.